Cut in Albanians’ Role in Yugoslavia Blocked
Ethnic Albanians from Yugoslavia’s troubled Kosovo province have blocked constitutional changes aimed at reducing their autonomy, a newspaper reported Friday.
The newspaper Politika said that in a stormy session Thursday, Albanians in the Kosovo parliamentary assembly refused to debate proposals to reduce the region’s autonomy in favor of the republic of Serbia, of which it is a part.
They proposed a new Kosovo constitution that would give the region full autonomy from Serbia.
Kosovo, inhabited by 1.7 million ethnic Albanians and 200,000 Serbs, has for decades been torn by friction between the two groups, divided by language, tradition and religion.
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